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"Your Information Station": A Case Study Of Rural Radio In The 21st Century, William Jacob Amadeus Pinnock Nov 2014

"Your Information Station": A Case Study Of Rural Radio In The 21st Century, William Jacob Amadeus Pinnock

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The study examined how the introduction of high-speed internet into a rural community affected audience members' use of their local radio station. A qualitative case study was guided by uses and gratifications and niche theory. The author conducted interviews with KMMR FM audience members in Malta, Montana, to investigate how the introduction of high-speed internet impacted listener habits. Twenty participants who either listened to or produced content for KMMR FM were interviewed. The author performed a thematic analysis of different uses for the radio guided by typologies created by Rubin (1983), Palmgreen and Rayburn (1979), and Katz, Haas, and Gurevitch …


Technological Mediations In Collective Fantasy: Exploring Gameplay, Initiation And Technology In Larp, Gary Catano Jan 2014

Technological Mediations In Collective Fantasy: Exploring Gameplay, Initiation And Technology In Larp, Gary Catano

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The Evolution Of Japanese Utopianism And How Akutagawa's Dystopian Novella, Kappa Was Born Out Of Chinese And Western Utopian Writings But Was Uniquely Japanese, Yoko Inagi Jan 2014

The Evolution Of Japanese Utopianism And How Akutagawa's Dystopian Novella, Kappa Was Born Out Of Chinese And Western Utopian Writings But Was Uniquely Japanese, Yoko Inagi

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